THE mum of a ten-year-old boy who was hit by a bus in Coventry has described how her worst nightmare came true.

Dafydd Roberts was struck by a bus in Abbey Road, Whitley, after he slipped and fell down an embankment onto the middle of road.

He was taken to Coventry’s University Hospital in a critical condition after suffering horrific head and arm injuries, broken ribs and a broken shoulder blade.

For the next four days he was fighting for his life in intensive care at Birmingham Children’s Hospital where he is now making a slow recovery.

It was an agonising wait for Dafydd’s parents Alison and Barry and sister Amelia, aged 14, who feared the worst.

The Whitley Abbey pupil had been out playing with his friends, just five minutes away from his home, in Tonbridge Road, when the accident happened on Wednesday March 21.

Alison, aged, 36, said: “I got a phone call from a friend of mine and saw him lying in the road at the back of the bus.

“He was covered in a blanket and couldn’t speak. I thought those were his last moments.

“The paramedics said they would do the very best they can. I felt helpless. It was the worst nightmare of my life. We’ve been traumatised by what happened.”

In a strange coincidence, Alison was the exact same age when she was hit by a car in The Moorfield, Stoke Aldermoor.

She spent three months in hospital and was left with epilepsy as a result of the accident.

She said: “I don’t usually let Dafydd out to play because it’s so dangerous but his friends were calling for him and I felt a bit guilty. It brought back horrible memories of what I went through at his age.”

Dafydd has endured three operations to repair tissue in his arm and is due to have further skin grafting surgery.

His accident has prompted parents at Dafydd’s school to launch a petition urging the council to put speed bumps along the road to make it safer.

Friends have also organised a fundraising event at Dunlop Sports Ground, in Burnaby Road, today to raise funds for Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

There will be a mini football tournament for parents and children from 3pm and also a bouncy castle, pool competition and pub quiz.

Alison said: “The level of support I have had from neighbours and parents has been overwhelming. One of the neighbours Stephanie Phillips stayed with Dafydd until I got there.

“And the parents doing this petition and fundraising for the hospital has been brilliant.”

She added: “The road is dangerous and too narrow. There was nothing Dafydd could have held onto that would have stopped him from going on to the road.

“All the bus routes have changed so now we have the bigger buses going down the road.

“There are three schools and a church on that road and yet there is not much of a footpath either.

“My daughter goes to the secondary school next door and has to cross Abbey Road everyday and it scares me that something might happen to her.

“I could have lost my son and I don’t want this to happen to anyone else. Something must be done about that road.”